I’m not a physicist and I don’t play one on the internet, but I believe that we will never have time travel. My premise is simple: if it was invented 50, 250, 500, or even 5,000 years from now, there is no way that the first time we’d ever discover someone from the future was 2022. Surely if it will ever be invented a time traveller would travel to somewhere in the past before us, and we don’t have evidence of that… so at no time in the future will a time machine be invented.
The only possibility that I see for a time machine to work is that we live in a multiverse and if a person did go back in time then they wouldn’t change our history, they would create another new history splitting the history we know and creating a new one that they know… and so in this case while I’d be wrong, you and I will never know.
In the future, if we don’t blow ourselves up and send the world back into the Stone Age, we’ll get closer and closer to traveling the speed of light. A very long time from now humans will visit other planets beyond our solar system. Those travellers will experience time differently than anyone who stays on earth. But while they will age less, they won’t be going back in time.
Time travel like H. G. Wells wrote about will never exist. It’s a fun thing to think about, but the reality is that if it ever was to be invented, we’d already know about it… we wouldn’t have to wait for some time in the future to learn about it.
Interesting thoughts;
Do you assume that 100% of knowledge is known to 100% of people 100% of the time?
Is there possibly knowledge that the current version of yourself does not have access to that a future version of yourself might?
Why have negative conjecture? Why not positive conjecture?
Ok, first of all, a huge hat tip to you for going the route of ‘negative conjecture’, from my last post, to make your point… that’s a smooth move. Well done!
But I don’t see my view as either negative or all-knowing.
I simply believe that if time travel were happening any time in the future people would know by 2022, because the time travellers would have been discovered by now. It’s not about my limited knowledge but the knowledge of all humankind in an era when everything is recorded. Of course I could be wrong, but I believe that we’d have evidence by now, and if we don’t now, well then it either hasn’t happened, or when it does happen it alters the timeline and so the timeline I’m already in doesn’t change.
I’d actually love to be proven wrong, I just think it’s very highly unlikely. To me it’s about odds, not about being negative.
Thank you for the comment, and the chuckle from having my own ideas used against me. 😃👍